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Two films, united in one. On the one hand, there are the black and white Super8 shots of the “History Museum of Bosnia-Herzegovina” in Sarajevo, which was built during the period of Yugoslavian socialism. The footage is accompanied by the voice of the director, who returns to the history of the museum and its difficulties in the present: no state institution has felt responsible for it for a long time. If the first film is a portrait of the museum’s architecture and the people who work in it, the second is an analysis of the first – and its ruin. Again and again, the image disappears abruptly, there are interruptions, phases of silence. The second film allows the first to disintegrate and thus transfers the threatened memory of socialism to the cinematic material. If it weren’t for the museum staff and the filmmaker, who keep the memory alive against these odds. (Philipp Stadelmaier)
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